Me Through The Alphabet 1 (A - E)
By M.-L.
@MALUSE (69413)
Germany
March 16, 2017 1:19pm CST
The alphabet has 26 letters. I claim that my personality has more than 26 facets! Sometimes the choice isn't easy. Should I take P-otatoes or P-iano, for example? Naturally, such a post is quite long, so I've divided it into five parts in order not to bore you.
A - Art
I love the visual arts, preferably Modern Art, but I can also enthuse over a Gothic altarpiece or a Renaissance painting. If an exhibition I want to see is somewhere far away, I spend time and money to go there. I don't own an artefact, though. I can't afford my taste.
B - Berlin
My mother lived there during her pregnancy. Through some kind of prenatal osmosis I must have sucked up the famous Berliner Luft (air of Berlin, the title of a popular song). I've always had positive preconceptions about the city. About 25 years ago I started visiting the city every two years to see what was going on there. Much has been going on during that period I can tell you! It's certainly the liveliest European capital at the moment. Hordes of tourists are the proof.
C - Challenge
Some members love challenges. I only love the ones I've composed myself! You're welcome to join in.
D - Deutschland
Deutschland is my country, like it or not. But I do like it, because I know it, its language, culture, landscape and people. Because I know them I can deal with their virtues and vices. From this follows that were I born somewhere else, I'd feel the same for some other country. I've used the verb 'like', not 'love'. I'm with Gustav Heinemann, a former President of the Federal Republic of Germany who said, "I don't love my country. I love my wife."
E - English
I'm an anglophile, that is, I'm a friend of the English language. I can't say that I love England or the English, because I hardly know the country and the people. When I was lucky I went to London for 5 days every two years with a group of students when I was still a teacher (I'm retired now). I was there 13 or 14 times, I don't really remember. The capital is not the country and English people are hard to find there.
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Pic from pixabay
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21 responses
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
16 Mar 17
@Asylum Are you fishing for compliments? In Germany, for example, there is no Brit bashing going on. In the UK, however, German bashing is a favourite pastime. You only have to listen to BBC 4 programmes. Tasteless jokes insulting Germans are a guaranteed hit.
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@Ronrybs (17849)
• London, England
17 Mar 17
@Lupita234 Just another reason I need to see it, I do enjoy a walk through history
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@pumpkinjam (8540)
• United Kingdom
16 Mar 17
I may borrow your idea of an A-Z of me. I may not. :)
I also enjoy arts and culture in many forms. I have never visited Germany, although I did take German at school and college, and I used to have German pen pals.
I live in England and I would not call anyone lucky to have visited London! I know a lot of people like it, though. There are some of the museums and things I'd like to see but the fact that they are in a busy, expensive city puts me off!
I'm from the Midlands (which Londoners and other Southerners think is the North). The nearest city is Coventry (bombed by the Germans in World War, and famed for its motor industry) and we're about 25 miles from England's second city of Birmingham (another city that's too big and too busy but does have some interesting places to visit if you're prepared to go looking for them).
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
16 Mar 17
I visited Coventry on my way up north from London to Scotland many moons ago. I know about the horrible history. I lived in Dresden when I was a child. The twinning of Coventry and Dresden is now 50+ years old. Much better than bombing each other to near extinction!
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
16 Mar 17
I love art and challenges even challenges posed by others. I did get to know many English people when I lived in Cyprus and they were lovely :))
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What you tell about your country is interesting. I have a love/hate relationship with mine, depending of the day, but I cannot leave it for a long time.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
23 Mar 17
Love art too, never been to Europe, I love a good challenge, and I too am an anglophile - one who wishes she paid better attention in French Class in school...Canada has both languages and I can say hello in French but don't know what is said after that!!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
17 Mar 17
I find this very interesting. A good way to tell others a little about yourself.
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.@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
22 Mar 17
It's the truth. Occasionally, I go to exhibitions where artifacts are sold (One can go there to only look at the exhibits) and can't but think this. Once I overheard a sales talk between the owner of a gallery and a woman interested in a picture. I made 'big ears' to hear which price they were discussing. It wasn't written under the picture which always means that it's high. Well, high. What does that mean on the international art market? In this case, one could have bought a one-family house with the money! I slunk away. Not my league. :-(
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@Tampa_girl7 (48958)
• United States
17 Mar 17
I am also picky about the challenges I do
job well done
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@RasmaSandra (73444)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Mar 17
Completely agree with all of these. I am always challenging to do better. My mom and dad were in Germany during WW II and I have tried several times to learn German but cannot wrap my brain around the grammar but I do know quite a few words and phrases Ich spreche Deutch venig. Love English and loved to give private lessons to people in English here. Now everyone thinks they already know enough English. Just love anything and everything that has to do with art.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
18 Mar 17
I like that you live and breath English. Of course you are correct most people who you come across in London are foreign. Those who are English will be working so those wandering around will inevitably be Tourists so rarely any point in asking for directions! You absorb English culture like a sponge!
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
:Love the challenges you pick for yourself, or should I say, like? One thing about that, from your D, I find it hard to believe that you 'love your wife', lol since you are the wife. 
I understand what you're saying just had to say it, if you know what I mean.
Looking forward to what you're going to pick for the letter P. I'd think you're not going to write about potatoes though, , unless you happen to get writer's block.
I understand what you're saying just had to say it, if you know what I mean.
Looking forward to what you're going to pick for the letter P. I'd think you're not going to write about potatoes though, , unless you happen to get writer's block.1 person likes this
@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
@MALUSE I'm behind then, as this is the only one I've seen or read, but that will have to wait until my return later on today.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
19 Mar 17
What a cool way to get to know you better
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
20 Mar 17
@MALUSE I'll look forward to reading it
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@jstory07 (134460)
• Roseburg, Oregon
9 Apr 17
It is nice to know these facts about you. I am going to read the rest of the alphabet about you.
@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
15 Apr 17
@MALUSE yes there are 49 alltogether with some that are called MASTS (those we dont visit) - Now if you remember back in History Jan Van Riebeeck settled first and the others that followed were shipwrecked all around the coastline of SA Its very ruggard and wild. I have plenty of hiking to do this holiday because not all can be reached by 4x4 - one we have to boat out to - Bird Island, but that will be a day trip
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
11 Apr 17
Some of my earliest family came from Germany @MALUSE . The original name was Gooch but I'm sure that was changed slightly from probably the original's of Gotche or something similar.
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
11 Apr 17
@MALUSE That spelling is probably more correct. I can't remember which town Dad said it was.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
19 Mar 17
regarding English, my brother has a British passport, and there was once that he came for a vacation, he wanted my son to "say samtheng", so i and my kid brother said "SAMTHENG". it was a joke, because he already acquired the British accent.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
21 Mar 17
@MALUSE some of those English speakers have the American accent. others with the British twang. a local Filipino however has his own manner of speaking English and those who speak good English might find it amusing.
